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occupiour (1340)

The form occupier2 is a cross reference to the following entry:

occupiour (1340)

occupeour,  occupeur,  occupier,  occupiour,  occupor,  occupour;  ocupiour,  ocupour  (ocoupour )  
  FEW:  occupare 7,301a Gdf:  occupeur 5,563c / occupier 5,563c GdfC: TL: DEAF:  ocuper (ocupeur)  DMF:  occupeur  TLF: OED:  occupier n.  MED:  occupiour n.  DMLBS:  occupator 1998c

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lawoccupier, holder
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  al dit Philippe de Valois occupier de la coroune ses lettres envoya  Anon Chr1 17.5
lawusurper, one who occupies or holds illegally
( 1340 )  il ount allegé q'il fust ocupour, issi qe l'eglise ne poet estre entendu plein mes voide donqes  YBB 14-15 Ed III 199
( 1369 )  la pees ordenee, soutz certeine fourme, entre nous, et le dit Johan, et Charles, son fitz, ja torcenous occupeur du dit roialme  Foedera1 iii 883
( 1392-93 )  toutz les poises et mesures q'il purra trover disacordantz [...] il les arde [...] et mist a fyn et a raunceon toutz les occupiours qe les ont occupié  Rot Parl1 iii 306
( 1402 )  les ditz forcibles entrours et occupiours  Rot Parl1 iii 488

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See also:

occupaciun  occupier1 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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